“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

By default, visitors to your Shelf page will initially see your books sorted by the date they were added, with the most recently added books first. Want to change the initial sort order for your shelf page, for instance to show your most recently read books first? Here's how:

2. Edit the template html for your Blog page, and add the following to the end of the element, right above the tag:

3. Save your changes.

4. Return to the template customization page, and scroll to the bottom of the settings pane. You should see two new settings, 'Shelf Sort By' and 'Shelf Sort Order'. Choose the sort order options your prefer, for instance 'Date Read' and 'Descending' and save the settings.

And you're done! Visitors to your shelf page will see your books initially sorted in the order you've chosen. If you want to change the order, you can now do so via the 'Shelf Sort By' and 'Shelf Sort Order' settings on your template customization page.